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Old July 24th, 2008  
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What Type of Fish Are They?

What family do they belong to? They may be from different families. Please let me know. Thnaks in advance.
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Old July 24th, 2008  
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the 1st one . 3rd one and 5th one looks like platies and the other 2 look like mollies to me.
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Old July 24th, 2008  
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They look like livebearers of some sort (mollies or platies). I'm not a livebearer guru, though, so I'm not positive.

The fish in the foreground looks like a goldfish, which will cause nothing but problems in a 7g tropical tank. It will produce far too much waste for the aquarium's system to handle, thus poisoning both itself and the other fish. It will suffer in the steadily warm temperature in a tropical tank, and it will suffer further without around 30g worth of space to swim in.
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Old July 24th, 2008  
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Look like Mickey Mouse Platys and Dalmation Mollys. Yep that looks to be a Goldfish tail to the right of the pic. Since these are definitely not Cichlids how about I move it to the livebearers forum. Hope you don't mind You will hopefully get more responses there.
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Old July 24th, 2008  
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Yeah, def. platys & mollies. Is that an angelfish in there also?? That will get WAY too big for a 7 gal. tank. I also agree with everyone else about the fantail not being able to be ina 7 gal. tank.
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Old July 24th, 2008  
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Yeah, def. platys & mollies. Is that an angelfish in there also?? That will get WAY too big for a 7 gal. tank. I also agree with everyone else about the fantail not being able to be ina 7 gal. tank.
good eye! I do believe thats an angel fish in there

SumaiyaNoman - How many fish are in that tank?
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Old July 26th, 2008  
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Well i have 3 angels, 2 gold fishes, 2 mollies, 3 platies(and one platy just gave birth to 14 babies)
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Old July 26th, 2008  
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wow! All that in a 7 gal. tank? Okay, first off - goldfish are cold water fish & all of the others are tropical fish. Angels can get to be 6 in. long, and goldfish can get pretty big too. The usual count we use is 20 gal. for the first goldfish & 10 gal. for every one after that. A single angel must be kept in a 20 gal. minimum - so 3 would need even more. And the platys will keep on breeding. So will the mollies if it is a breeding pair. The angels may also breed.
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